Free Preschool Lesson Plans For Making Music With Your Preschooler

Here are some free preschool lesson plans for making music with your preschool class or your own preschoolers at home. These are very simple, and will introduce your preschooler to listening and thinking about music.

These activities will help your preschoolers learn:

-To listen for the difference between loud sounds and soft sounds
-To identify how sounds are the same or different
-Different ways they can create music with their own voices.

Now, onto the fun!

1. What's making that sound? Look around your home and collect items like marbles, bells, pencils, paperclips, and other small items. Put one item in a small box and shake it around. Ask your preschooler what they think is in the box. Does it make a soft or a loud sound?

2. Make your own rock band! Go outside and collect rocks of different sizes. Your preschoolers might even enjoy helping you with this. Then pick up various rocks and Bang them together, one pair at a time. Ask your pre-school children, if you know if the sounds are different rocks do the same or different. If they are different, how do they differ?

3. No discussion allowed! Play with your children in preschool, where we talk to talk to each other instead of singing their words. For some reason, this game reminds me of a scene from the film "Finding Nemo" where Dory "talk" was the whale. If your preschoolers are familiarwith the movie, you might use that as an example of how to sing words instead of speak them.